The Ninth Fort in Kaunas held a commemoration of victims of the Grosse Aktion on the 85th anniversary of the massacre at the fort on October 28. The commemoration organized by the Kaunas Jewish Community and the museum featured speeches, music and a dramatized documentary film. Candles were lit and stones placed at the mass murder site.

From October 28 to 29 in 1941 around 10,000 Jews were murdered in one mass murder operation. Most were taken from the Kaunas ghetto.

Kaunas Jewish Community chairman Gercas Žakas, Lithuanian Jewish Community executive director Michail Segal, representatives of the Lost Shtetl Museum in Šeduva, Israeli embassy chargé d’affaires Shimon Pesach, French embassy chargé d’affaires Emmanuel Carnesecca, German cultural attaché Valerie Hog, deputy Lithuanian foreign minister Rūta Statulevičiūtė-Kaučikienė, Lithuanian MP Vytautas Juozapaitis, Jurbarkas mayor Skirmantas Mockevičius, Ninth Fort Museum director Marius Pečiulis and others attended the commemoration.